Arjun Erigaisi superb at 56th Biel GMT Blitz 2023 with a 2864 performance, now World no.17
Arjun Erigaisi ended his tough form by winning the Blitz event of 56th Biel Chess Festival GMT 2023. He scored 10.5/14, performed at 2864, gained 27.2 Elo rating points, taking his live rating to 2737.2, now he is world no.17 in Blitz. However, David Navara (CZE) and Vincent Keymer (GER) are currently leading the GMT standings with a score of 26/44 each. Arjun will face Jules Moussard (FRA), Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU) and Vincent Keymer (GER) in the last three rounds. Today is a rest day. GMT Round 5 starts tomorrow Monday 24th July. MTO Round 6 starts today from 2 p.m. local time, 5:30 p.m. IST. Photos: Biel Chess Festival
Navara and Keymer in the lead
Haik Martirosyan (ARM) won the Blitz Open event scoring 11/13. IM Harikrishnan A Ra scored sole 9.5/13 to finish fifth. He gained 82.4 Elo rating points. IM Aditya S Samant and GM Bharath Subramaniyam H are the only two other Indians finished in top ten. They scored 9/13 to secure seventh and ninth place. GM-elect IM Rathanvel V S also scored 9/13. He was placed eleventh.
GMT Scoring
Rapid: Win = 2 points, Draw = 1 point and Loss = 0
Classical: Win = 4 points, Draw = 1.5 points and Loss = 0
Blitz: Win = 1 point, Draw = 0.5 point and Loss = 0
GMT Blitz standings
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | TB1 | |
1 | 3 | GM | Erigaisi, Arjun | IND | 2710 | 10,5 |
2 | 2 | GM | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2643 | 8,5 |
3 | 1 | GM | Navara, David | CZE | 2675 | 7,5 |
8 | GM | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2770 | 7,5 | |
5 | 7 | GM | Moussard, Jules | FRA | 2626 | 7 |
6 | 4 | GM | Deac, Bogdan-Daniel | ROU | 2644 | 6,5 |
7 | 5 | GM | Keymer, Vincent | GER | 2669 | 5 |
8 | 6 | GM | Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2670 | 3,5 |
Current GMT standings
Classical Round 5 pairings
Bo. | No. | Rtg | Name | Result | Name | Rtg | No. | |||
1 | 3 | 2735 | GM | Yu, Yangyi | GM | Le, Quang Liem | 2728 | 8 | ||
2 | 4 | 2689 | GM | Navara, David | GM | Keymer, Vincent | 2690 | 2 | ||
3 | 5 | 2694 | GM | Amin, Bassem | GM | Deac, Bogdan-Daniel | 2693 | 1 | ||
4 | 6 | 2710 | GM | Erigaisi, Arjun | GM | Moussard, Jules | 2654 | 7 | ||